16 February 2002
February 16, 2002
Custody and Access Alert
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. This spring, the federal government will table a report to Parliament on proposed changes to the Divorce Act, relating to custody, access and child-support. This will be an important phase in the process started in ...
16 February 2002
February 16, 2002
Feminist Perspectives on the Draft Federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. In May 2001, former Health Minister Allan Rock publicized draft federal legislation on assisted human reproduction (AHR) (Health Canada documents on AHR, including the draft Act, can be found at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/protection/biologics_genetics/reproduction/index.htm). The draft Act represents ...
16 February 2002
February 16, 2002
Draft Bill on Civil Unions: Is the Quebec Government about to Create Separate Equality for Same-Sex Couples and their Children?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. After 28 years of living together as a couple, Michael Hendricks and René LeBoeuf, two gay men, claimed the legal right to marry before Quebec’s Superior Court in November 2001. Their claim is similar to ...
6 December 2001
December 6, 2001
NAWL Brief on the Anti-Terrorism Act to the Senate Special Committee on Bill C-36 / Consulter nos archives par catégorie
Ce mémoire est disponible seulement en anglais. The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) is extremely concerned about the impact of proposed Bill C-36, An Anti-terrorism Act, on the civil and political rights as well as the equality rights of ...
23 October 2001
October 23, 2001
NAWL’s Pre-Budget Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance, 2001
Ce mémoire est disponible seulement en anglais. We have one key message for the committee: Good fiscal policy-making must take gender into account. To underline this message, our submission will illustrate some problems with two major budgetary initiatives of recent years: personal ...
2 October 2001
October 2, 2001
Late Breaking News – Equal Marriage
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. A disappointing judgement denying the right of same sex couples to marry was issued by the Supreme Court of British Columbia on October 2, 2001 (EGALE Canada Inc. et al vs Attorney General of Canada ...
28 September 2001
September 28, 2001
Women Launch Declaration Against War and Racism, for Peace and Justice
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. We wish to express out profound sorrow and shock at the devastation and tremendous loss suffered by our sisters and brothers in the United States of America. Our thoughts go to the innocent victims who ...
18 September 2001
September 18, 2001
The Women’s Economic Equality Project
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Women of all ages experience gender inequality within and outside the home. Women are denied access to basic healthcare, housing, education, and work. Even when they are employed, women’s wages in industrialized countries are only ...
18 September 2001
September 18, 2001
Kim Rogers: Death in the Modern Day Pauper’s Prison
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Kim Rogers, eight months pregnant and serving a sentence of house arrest in Sudbury, Ontario, died in her small apartment on August 9, 2001 during the course of a record-setting heat wave. Two days passed ...
18 August 2001
August 18, 2001
Spousal Support and Pension Income in the Case of Boston v. Boston
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Based on a LEAF press release (July 12, 2001, online at http://www.leaf.ca) This past July, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in the Ontario case of Boston v. Boston ([2001] SCJ No. 45, ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Thoughts on the World Conference Against Racism
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. I had the honour of representing NAWL at the UN World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa recently. My memories are a collage of bodyguard-flanked dignitaries, trumpeting elephants, begging ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Some Reflections on an International Experience: A Report from the CHRF International Human Rights Training Program
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Introduction This summer I represented NAWL at the Canadian Human Rights Foundation’s (CHRF) 22nd annual International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, just outside of Montreal. (See the CHRF’s website at http://www.chrf.ca/english/general/files/master_eng.htm) For three ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Consultation Of Women Anti-Poverty Activists
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. In March, in the course of preparing the factum on the Gosselin case, NAWL consulted with women anti-poverty activists. Meetings were held in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montréal and Indian Harbour (Nova Scotia). Over forty women with ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Women’s Poverty, Women’s Equality: Supreme Court to Rule on one Woman’s Claim to Social and Economic Rights
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. The Supreme Court of Canada will soon be hearing a precedent-setting case about the right to adequate social assistance benefits. NAWL was granted leave to intervene in the case, to present a feminist analysis of ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
In Whose Best Interests?
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Both historically and currently, women have been and remain the primary caregivers of children in most families in Canada. Certainly, fathers share more of the responsibility than they did in the past, but in 52% ...
18 June 2001
June 18, 2001
Lessons Learned from Family Law — The Proposed Presumption in Favour of Shared Parenting
Cet article est disponible uniquement en anglais. Part of the fallout from the passage of the Child Support Guidelines in 1997 was a political compromise, engineered by Senator Anne Cools, which required a study to be conducted on custody and access. It ...
15 June 2001
June 15, 2001
NAWL Brief to the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Family Law Committee on Custody, Access and Child
Mémoire de l’ANFD au Comité fédéral, provincial et territorial sur le droit de la famille, sur la garde, le droit de visite et les pensions alimentaires pour enfants The Divorce Act must begin with a preamble, supported by the wording within the ...
1 June 2001
June 1, 2001
Brief to the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Family Law Committee on Custody, Access and Child Support
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23 May 2001
May 23, 2001
NAWL Brief to the Supreme Court of Canada in Gosselin v. Québec (Attorney General)
Mémoire de l’ANFD à la Cour suprême dans l’affaire Gosselin c. Québec NAWL wishes to highlight aspects of the record that reveal the impact of the challenged section of the Social Aid Regulation on young women and men in the 18-30 age ...
28 April 2001
April 28, 2001
Brief on the Proposed Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-11)
Brief on the Proposed Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-11) Mémoire concernant le Projet de loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés In 2001, the government introduced new legislation on immigration and refugee protection. NAWL proposed a series of recommendations ...
